Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Phil Sainty]

On 15/09/18 01:41, Yuri Khan wrote:
> I was one of two people here to suggest that it is a bad thing
> that the mark is used both as a navigation mechanism and as a
> region delimiter

I think it's impractical to suggest that all code which acts on
the region should be modified to only do so if the region is
active.

The only approach I can think of is to have the mark forcibly set
to nil whenever the region is inactive, so that commands which
want to use the region will fail.  I suspect that would mean
giving up all use of the mark ring too -- but you could implement
a custom equivalent for the purposes of navigation.


Maybe play with something like this:

(defun my-clear-inactive-mark ()
  (unless (region-active-p)
    (set-mark nil)))

(add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'my-clear-inactive-mark)


-Phil